SOLID WASTE ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE

Department/Location: Public Works and Utilities – Public Works Section FLSA Status: Non-exempt Bargaining Unit: AFSCME Classification: This position is an Essential classification and will require employee to report to duty after a hurricane or emergency. Schedule: This position normally works a regular weekday daytime shift and requires scheduled/unscheduled overtime, including evenings, weekends and holidays and/or immediate response to emergency conditions. Supervision Exercised: None Supervision Received: Superintendent General Purpose of the Position: The purpose of this position is to assist the Solid Waste and Recycling Departments with old accounts and provide new accounts in the areas of roll-offs, front ends and recyclable items. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Prepare reports and maintain records. • Perform other duties as assigned. Skills and Physical Abilities Required: • Knowledge of modern principals, practices and techniques of refuse collection and disposal. • General knowledge of safe work techniques and practices used in solid waste collection. • Ability to make independent judgments and decisions appropriate to experience. • Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with employees and the public. • Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions. • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. • Ability to work in close, confined spaces, walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk, hear, reach above shoulders, work overhead on ladders and platforms, use fingers and hands with dexterity, and feel and reach with hands and arms. • Ability to lift up to 50 pounds. • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus. Computer Equipment and Software Requirements: Windows Based Computer, Adding machine, Motorola 2-way Mobile Radio, Pager system and other miscellaneous equipment. Education and Experience Required: A good driving record, a valid Florida driver’s license, a Class B Commercial Driver License (CDL) with air brakes endorsement and a high school diploma or GED equivalent. Two (2) years of experience in work related to collections and accounts payable. Environmental Conditions: Mostly inside work, some outside may be needed. Commercial Driver License (CDL): A Class B Commercial Driver License (CDL) with air brakes endorsement is required for this position. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. Duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.